Ever wanted to meet with your local politician but didn’t know where to begin or what to say?
On Tuesday July 14, join Progress Toronto's Executive Director Michal Hay and Toronto Community Benefits Network’s Campaigns Manager Kumsa Baker for this training. You'll find out why meeting with your local politician matters and how you can prepare for your meeting to make sure your voice is heard. Learn more and sign up here.
Read MoreDeveloping digital campaigns and strategies is crucial to winning on progressive issues, particularly now during the COVID-19 pandemic. Progress Toronto is excited to partner with 350.org and their Senior Digital Strategist Atiya Jaffar to provide this Digital Campaigning 101 training.
Join us on Tuesday, July 7 to learn the basics of digital campaigning, what digital campaigning can achieve, and how to create digital strategies. Click here to learn more and sign up!
Read MoreProgress Toronto is offering 6 free trainings and workshops for our 2020 Summer Training Series! Due to COVID-19, all of our trainings are happening online.
This Summer, workshops include digital campaigning, how to meet with your local politician (including virtual meetings), using your personal narrative to move people to action, and more! Click here to learn more and register.
Read MoreJoin Progress Toronto on Monday June 29 at 9:30am via Zoom so we can watch City Council live together. Toronto City Council is meeting and there are many important items on the agenda including defunding the Toronto police, the City’s response to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, anti-Black racism, COVID-19 response and so much more! Click here to register and learn more.
Read MoreThousands joined us live for our conversation on defunding the police and investing in communities. You can still watch the panel! Click here to catch up and see what the panelists had to say.
Read MoreYou’re invited to join us on Thursday, June 25 at 6:30pm for an unprecedented and not to be missed online fundraising event: a live online cooking demo with activist, author, and award-winning Chef Joshna Maharaj! As Joshna takes you through a delicious recipe she will be in conversation with the ever-inspiring Paul Taylor, Executive Director of FoodShare. Find out more.
Read MoreProgress Toronto is seeking a senior non-profit leader to fill the role of Interim Executive Director for a 12-month parental leave contract. Applications are due on Sunday July 5, 2020. Find out more here.
Read MoreA discussion on reprioritizing city investments as we build a just Toronto.
Sign up (for free) to join us on Wednesday, June 17 as we team up with the Urban Alliance on Race Relations to co-host a conversation with Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder and Vice Chair of the Black Legal Action Centre Sandy Hudson, lawyer, professor, author, advocate and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University Dr. Pamela Palmater, writer and community organizer with Education Not Incarceration Phillip Dwight Morgan, and Executive Director of Black Creek Community Health Centre Cheryl Prescod. The conversation will be moderated by Toronto Star Digital Producer Angelyn Francis. Find out more and sign up here.
Read MoreExamining the intersections of rebuilding our city & what we can achieve
Sign up (for free) to join us on Thursday, June 11 as we host a conversation with City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, the Executive Coordinator of the Toronto Community for Better Child Care Abigail Doris, and MPP for Scarborough Southwest and the Official Opposition Critic for Early Learning and Child Care Doly Begum. The conversation will be moderated by Leila Sarangi, Director of Social Action Family Services Toronto and National Coordinator of Campaign 2000. Find out more and sign up here.
Read MoreA discussion on what urgent funding & a New Deal for Toronto would mean for all of us
Sign up (for free) to join on us Tuesday, June 2 as we host a conversation with the Director of International Diplomacy at the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and former Toronto Mayor David Miller, sitting Member of Parliament and former City Councillor Matthew Green, and community advocate and 2018 Toronto City Council candidate Chiara Padovani. The conversation will be moderated by Brittany Andrew-Amofah, Senior Policy Analyst at the Broadbent Institute. Find out more and sign up here.
Read MoreThis pandemic has exposed and deepened inequality in our city — showing even more of us that the old way of doing things isn’t working.
Just as so many of us are struggling to pay rent and put food on the table, COVID-19 emergency spending alongside decades of underfunding has pushed City Hall to a financial breaking point and Toronto’s City Manager has been ringing the alarm.
If thousands of us take action by signing this petition, we can convince the Federal and Provincial governments to provide immediate financial relief to cities and commit to a new deal, a new relationship, with our city to help us build a Toronto that works for everyone. Find out more and send your message here.
Read MoreProgress Toronto is excited to partner with the Workers’ Action Centre and 15 and Fairness to help provide a “Know Your Rights” online training with WAC’s Executive Director, Deena Ladd and Parkdale Community Legal Services, Workers's Rights Division staff lawyer, John No. This training is designed to help you navigate and apply for the Canada Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB), to know more about your rights regarding job protection, paid and unpaid leave, and safe working conditions, and to understand the supports you are entitled to. Find out more and sign up here.
Read MoreAs the Mayor, Councillors and Toronto’s new Office of Recovery and Rebuild begin their work on Toronto’s recovery, local organizations including Progress Toronto, representing tens of thousands of people from across the city, have submitted a letter to the Mayor and City Council that outlines ten principles for a bold, green, and just recovery. See our letter here.
Read MoreToronto City Council was suspended at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Mayor was given emergency powers to respond to the crisis. But now, City Council is being called back to hold a special online meeting by video to discuss COVID-19 emergency measures and other urgent matters. Join Progress Toronto on Thursday, April 30 at 10AM via Zoom so we can watch City Council live together. Find out more and sign up here.
Read MoreIn this online workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of public narrative -- the story of self, the story of us, the story of now -- and practice telling your story to inspire others to take action. Learn from expert storyteller, Amara Possian, to perfect your personal narrative. Find out more and sign up here.
Read MoreSelf-care is the act of prioritizing one's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Building and strengthening self-care practices can help navigate the impacts of being in an unprecedented global pandemic. Join Farrah Khan for an interactive workshop developing strategies for self-care. Sign up here.
Read MoreJoin us for a discussion on e-learning with education researcher Beyhan Farhadi, public education advocate and Scarborough parent Joy Henderson, and OSSTF-Toronto President Leslie Wolfe. Our expert panelists will discuss the differences between e-learning and emergency distance education, the equity impact of e-learning on students, and the benefits of in-class learning. Learn more here.
Read MoreNeighbourhood support networks are being built by community members to address the needs of vulnerable people during this crisis. As a follow-up to our March 30 panel introducing neighbourhood pods (see recap here), many participants expressed interest in building a neighbourhood pod themselves. Progress Toronto is happy to partner with local neighbourhood pod organizer, Sarah Van Exan, to provide a small “hands-on” workshop to develop your own neighbourhood pod. Find out more here.
Read MoreThis week, we are sharing some important government links, inviting you to an online event we are hosting, and sharing some resources from our online training on supporting vulnerable neighbours with neighbourhood pods. We hope you’re staying well, safe, and doing your part to slow the spread of COVID-19.
In this post you will find:
Resources from all three levels of government
Invitation to our online political panel and movie night!
Resources from our online training on how you can help neighbours who might need your support
Tips on Social (Physical) Distancing
On Monday, March 30, over 130 people joined Progress Toronto as we teamed up with Disability Justice Network of Ontario’s Sarah Jama and Amara Possian to host an online training on How to Help those Vulnerable to COVID-19: Neighbourhood Pods.
There was a lot of great information shared at the training! You can find a round up of the resources and references from the online training by reading more here.
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